l48 Amiual Meeting 



CENTENARY VOLUME. 



Your Council has had under consideration the compilation 

 of a Centenary Volume, giving a history of the Society, with a 

 series of memoirs of the distinguished men connected with the 

 Society in the past. This work is well in hand, and the Council 

 hopes to publish this volume during the present session. 



EXCHANGES. 



Your Council continues to receive in exchange various 

 publications, both home and foi'eign, from kindred societies, many 

 of which are of great importance. The Council regrets, how- 

 ever, to report that the American Geographical Society has 

 intimated that it proposes to limit its exchange list to those 

 publications which are distinctly geographical in character. 

 Application for back numbers of our Proceedings have been 

 received from the following : — 



The Brooklyn Museum. 



New York Public Library. 



New York Academy of Science. 



Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 



United States Department of Agriculture. 



Department of Agriculture, Canada. 



The Patent Office Library, London. 

 A number of publications were also received from the Com- 

 mittee of the Ulster Fisheries and Biology Association on the 

 winding-up of the Association. 



ARCHAEOLOGICAL SECTION. 



A separate report of the Archaeological Section will be 

 submitted to the members by its Hon. Secretary, Mr. H. C. 

 Lawlor, M.R.I.A., at the Annual Meeting of the Section, which 

 is to be held on Monday, the 28th instant. 



